Book & podcast collection

College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be 

byAndrew Delbanco

The strengths and failures of the American college, and why liberal education still matters As the commercialization of American higher education accelerates, more and more students are coming to college with the narrow aim of obtaining a preprofessional credential. College combines archival sources, narrative history, and voices from the period, allowing the evidence to complicate easy judgments and familiar explanations. Seen through the lens of education, College explains not only what happened, but why competing interpretations still matter. College emphasizes the specific circumstances that made this story possible and the consequences that followed.

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Publication date

Dec 28, 2014

Format

Print edition

Pages

264

ISBN

9780691165516